The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-06-01
PRoTE T1ON.

featuring in the United States
would be losing bushes if left
to the competition of the world.
All kinds of goods and wares are
made in England, France, Germa.
ny and other foreign countries for
domestic use and foreign trade.
Those countries have their home
trade and foreign trade, and seek
to extend the latter by sending
their goods in ships to countries
whose ports are open to receive
them. The larger portion of their
trade consists in an exchange of
goods. They have the seas of the
world open to effect this EXCHANGE
of goods. In the United States
the Protectionists say it is necessa-
ry to prevent competition, because
foreigners can bring their goods
and wares here and sell them to
our people at lower price than
our manufacturers can afford to
make them. Now mark. 1t is
not contended. that, if the foreign
goods are excluded, our lmanufac-
turers can supply our people with
them as cheaply as the foreign
manufacturers Therefore the for
eigners must be excluded to enable
the home manufacturers to obtain
higher prices for their goods. In
excluding them, our government
forces the people to pay more than
they would have to pay if foreign
| goods were not taxed so heavily
as to prevent their being brought
here and sold to them at lower pri-
ces. L is is the protection gran.
( ted to the manufactures of the
| United States. The people Of
this country are forced by the pro-
tective tariff to buy the goods of
the home manufacturers for the
special benefit of those manufac-
turers. The prOtectionists insist
that it is necessary to prevent for
eign competition. 1t is plain that
the object is TO extort an advance
in the price Of the goods of the
merican manufacturer. This is
an admission that the American
manufactures cannot successfully
compete with the FOREIGN mauufac-
turer, or it exhibits desire tn OBJ
tain extravagant prices at the ex-
pense of the people. This protec-
ton Injuries the working men in
the factories, causing them to pay
higher prices for the goods they
need:it Injuries all classes of our
people for the same reason, anu
especially the farmers upon whose
labors all classes depend for the
general prosperity. A great deal
is said about the low wages of Eng
land, and the high wages paid the
operatives in the factories of the
United States. Good
prices are more readily and consis
tently paid the factory hands in
Great Britain than the same class
in our country. We will show ia
an article later on, that the Eng
fish factory operatives are better
off than those in our country, and
we pas that point for the present.
Some of the views, we have here
tofore expressed, are sustained BY
what the protectionists themselves
say. They declare that protection
is necessary to sustain manuflc>
lures, that they cannot live with
out it; tl.at heavy duties enable
them to raise their prices and net
twenty-five to thirty per cent
more than they could if put in the
open markets Of the world. We'll
they get that per cent and more
under protection. We give the
folio wing statement as to some 0.
the per cents given them by oul
tariff. Calicoes so per cent; spoo
III cad 70, "; iron 81, SS, 81; stee
rail 80; silk so; carpets So, 1O5
blankets Y, 80, 107; fannels "A
knit goods 81, SO; wool hats 81